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They destroy a man’s entire life over $1 which he didn’t steal , yet they pass a judgement that 10/12 crores which were actually misappropriated is a small amount & needs no punishment. This is a sickening.

@sanjay1193 @ShivrattanDhil1 If I needed an EV for novelty, I would buy a golf cart.Period .

@ShivrattanDhil1 @arroworks I have never been convinced with these EV vehicles anyways. For me only Petrol vehicles work.

Finally someone said it . EV are the fastest depreciating vehicles in the market . It’s like buying a one time use product . Use , suffer & throw .

Shocking to see @airindia’s grooming policy. Prohibiting Bindi and Sindoor is an insult to our heritage. Does N. Chandrasekaran approve of this "modernization" that erases our culture? The same Tata that owns TCS. See Page 27: scribd.com/document/10276… ​Accountability is needed. Now. RT if you agree ​#AirIndia #Tata #SanatanDharma #PreserveCulture @TCS

And India’s gets what in return? 🤔Global 🔔

So Pakistanis are now a cross between Arabs & Africans 🤣

We are hitting stupidity levels here that shouldn't even be possible. 😒

Begging in different formats.

Looks like a MQ-9 Reaper.. Maybe reversed engineered after they managed to haul away a crashed one. 🤔

That's $35m in interest! 🤣… these beggars will again borrow money to pay the interest too.

@HimjaParekh I am sure they know where she is. Negotiations must be on amongst various parties involved.

@arroworks Isn’t if strange she has not been located so far.

If she has so much information about the absconder, the cops should logically pick her up for questioning. Maybe she also knows what Nida Khan had for breakfast this morning.

Securities fraud is the new foreign policy.

$760M short on oil. Placed 20 minutes before the Hormuz announcement. This is the 3rd time. March 23: $500M short — 15 minutes before Trump delayed Iran strikes. Oil dropped 15%. April 7: $950M short — hours before the US-Iran ceasefire. April 17: $760M short — 20 minutes before Hormuz declared open. The CFTC is investigating. The ‘peace trade’ was sold to retail. Someone else got out first. Who knew?

We should just maintain our present stance and watch the circus. I have always maintained that Israel will never stop and will eventually force the US to invade with ground troops. That's when Pakistan will be taken to the cleaners. They will be forced to fight somebody else's war, the cost of the billions borrowed.

@arroworks That is good. India and other friendlies should amplify the news of Pak army receiving billions. We are nice ppl after all.

Iran has just closed the Strait of Hormuz again, so much for their world peacemaker story. By June, Pakistan will not be in a position to cope with its fuel, food, and power shortages.

Fire is hot.

#BREAKING: Iran hits out at Trump saying all his Truth Social claims last night were false. Statement by Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Spokesperson of the Iranian Parliament: “The President of the United States made seven claims in the span of one hour, all seven of which are false. With such falsehoods, they did not win the war, and they certainly will not get anywhere in negotiations either. If the blockade continues, the Strait of Hormuz will not remain open. Passage through the Strait of Hormuz will take place based on designated routes and with Iran’s authorization. Whether the Strait is open or closed, and the rules governing it, will be determined on the ground—not on social media. Media warfare and the engineering of public opinion are key components of the conflict, but the Iranian people will not be swayed by such tactics. For accurate and reliable updates on the negotiations, refer to the recent interview with the Foreign Ministry spokesperson.”

@spectatorindex In reply Netanyahu just bombed Southern Lebanon. 🙃

Trump tells ABC News he will 'prohibit' Netanyahu from bombing Lebanon and will tell Netanyahu 'he cannot do it'.

@A1mit @kunksed Apple could be the exception to the rule, but I see this happening to a horde of luxury labels from France & Italyy once FTA kicks in. Watches included.

@kunksed @arroworks I wrote similarly about Apple a few years back and I see the story playing along so well today

Birkenstock went from 1 India store in 2020 to more than 50 today. And that isn’t the victory it looks like. It’s a distress signal. Brands don’t walk into India when they’re winning in the West. They walk in when they’ve stopped winning. The Indian premium consumer has quietly become the last chapter in a lot of Western brand stories — and if you squint, you can see the pattern stretching back a decade. Starbucks arrived here in 2012, seven years after US growth peaked and “mall Starbucks” had become shorthand for corporate blandness. H&M came in 2015, just as “fast fashion” stopped being aspirational in the West and started being a slur. Victoria’s Secret shipped up when American teens had moved on to Skims and Aerie. Uniqlo, Pottery Barn, and Zara’s aggressive Indian expansion — all arrived in the second half of their Western growth story, never the first. The pattern is almost comical once you see it. Brands land here right when their home market stops being easy money. Birkenstock is textbook. Their stock is down around 20% this year. Their FY26 guidance disappointed Wall Street last month. The Crocs CEO said recently that customers are “migrating back towards athletic.” The New York Times ran a piece calling the potato-shoe era over. The Western ugly-shoe cycle — the one that put Birkenstock on every Brooklyn influencer’s feet for the last five years — is visibly closing. Meanwhile, Birkenstock India grew 31% last year. APAC is now the company’s fastest-growing segment globally. In their last earnings call, management told investors this growth will “reduce exposure to the US dollar.” Translation: we need India to save the story. And we’re showing up right on cue. Influencers are doing Birkenstock-with-socks posts in 2026, two years after TikTok in New York was already over them. The aunty who called them chappals at a family function in 2019 bought a pair in taupe last month. There’s an Arizona in every third Uber in Bandra. Wedding sangeets now feature cousins sliding into Bostons for the after-party. They’re good shoes. I’ll say it twice because the comfort is real. That’s not the argument. The argument is that the story we tell ourselves about “the brand arriving” is backwards. What actually happened is the brand ran out of easy growth somewhere else, and we became the escape valve. We get to feel arrived. They get to extend the runway. The Indian premium consumer has become a useful last chapter in a lot of these stories. We show up exactly when the West gets bored, which means we’re buying peak narrative the moment it’s losing its edge. We always run this cycle two beats behind. We were getting into skinny jeans as they were dying. Oat milk landed in Mumbai cafés the same year America started complaining it was everywhere. Athleisure became a serious Indian category after athleisure had been absorbed so completely in the US that nobody called it athleisure anymore. The pattern is consistent enough that you could almost trade on it — if you could stomach buying the thing your rich cousins in Manhattan are quietly moving on from. The consolation is that we don’t really care about being first. Indians buy brands for what they signal, not what they predict. A Birkenstock in 2026 Bombay says “I’ve made it.” A Birkenstock in 2026 Brooklyn says “I’m still here, for now.” Those are different jobs, and ours is frankly the more fun one. Being fashion’s last reliable customer is also its own kind of power. The brands know it. That’s why Birkenstock is opening forty new stores globally next year with India as a focus, even as they guide Wall Street to expect slower growth overall. We’re the hedge. The hedge works. Maybe that’s fine. Or maybe it just means we’ll spend the next decade wearing what America is quietly taking off.

CEASEFIRE BROKEN: Explosions throughout southern Lebanon. Israel carrying out huge amount of detonations of Lebanese infrastructure. Qantara, Khiam, Naqoura, al-Bayada, Chama, and Houla are being destroyed.

Lent his a*se again?? 🤔